Mr. Turner

00:47:37,376 --> 00:47:40,317 - The majesty of mystery. - Indeed. 556 00:47:40,417 --> 00:47:42,942 Now, let us allow nature to take its course. 557 00:47:43,042 --> 00:47:46,234 Although we will have to adjust the position of the easel from time to time. 558 00:47:46,334 --> 00:47:49,650 Indeed, as mighty Apollo moves across his heavenly tract. 559 00:47:49,750 --> 00:47:51,234 Yes! 560 00:47:51,334 --> 00:47:53,858 - Three steps down, Mrs Somerville. - Take care. 561 00:47:53,958 --> 00:47:56,891 Oh, my goodness me! 562 00:47:57,459 --> 00:48:00,150 Oh, Mr Turner, I am quite overwhelmed. 563 00:48:00,250 --> 00:48:02,359 Do as you wish, view as you wish. 564 00:48:02,459 --> 00:48:06,109 Oh, my! These are breathtaking, are they not? 565 00:48:06,209 --> 00:48:09,150 My dear late father would have much appreciated them. 566 00:48:09,250 --> 00:48:12,775 - A naval man, I believe. - Indeed, he was a vice admiral. 567 00:48:12,875 --> 00:48:16,150 - We have the Battle of Trafalgar over here. - Was he there, your father? 568 00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:18,849 Er, no, he was at Camperdown. 569 00:48:19,708 --> 00:48:22,359 - Lord Nelson's flagship, the Victory. - Indeed. 570 00:48:22,459 --> 00:48:25,276 - It's a sketch for the painting. - Oh? 571 00:48:25,376 --> 00:48:27,608 - Commissioned by the King. - Is that so? 572 00:48:27,708 --> 00:48:29,733 Two years in the making. 573 00:48:29,833 --> 00:48:32,317 - He didn't like it. - Did he not? 574 00:48:32,417 --> 00:48:33,775 - No. - Too good for him. 575 00:48:35,833 --> 00:48:37,401 Two years! 576 00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:39,942 It takes me only half an hour to paint a picture. 577 00:48:40,042 --> 00:48:41,775 So you are an artist, Mrs Somerville? 578 00:48:41,875 --> 00:48:45,858 Oh, I don't think we can quite use that term in the presence of Mr Turner. 579 00:48:45,958 --> 00:48:49,150 Nevertheless, Daddy, Mrs Somerville is a fine watercolourist. 580 00:48:49,250 --> 00:48:51,984 Oh, you flatter me. Oh, what an epic storm scene! 581 00:48:52,084 --> 00:48:54,724 Rock crushing a house in Switzerland. 582 00:48:55,459 --> 00:48:58,057 Calais sands, women digging for bait. 583 00:48:59,334 --> 00:49:00,849 I don't care for that much. 584 00:49:05,833 --> 00:49:08,192 Oh, my! What have we here? 585 00:49:08,292 --> 00:49:11,192 Oh, it's Hannibal crossing the Alps. 586 00:49:11,292 --> 00:49:13,817 Do you see the elephant? 587 00:49:13,917 --> 00:49:17,433 - An elephant? - He's in there somewhere. 588 00:49:18,250 --> 00:49:22,099 - Are you teasing me, Mr Turner? - By no means, madam. 589 00:49:37,417 --> 00:49:39,067 Can you find him? 590 00:49:39,167 --> 00:49:41,599 Well, no, I cannot. 591 00:49:42,167 --> 00:49:43,766 There he is. 592 00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:47,858 - Oh! Ha, ha! - Daddy's little jest. 593 00:49:50,417 --> 00:49:53,608 Oh, it is a terrifying scene! 594 00:49:53,708 --> 00:49:56,192 The elements dwarfing the elephants. 595 00:49:56,292 --> 00:49:57,891 Hubris. 596 00:50:03,167 --> 00:50:04,682 There. 597 00:50:05,334 --> 00:50:08,266 Shall I make it do a wee dance? 598 00:50:09,042 --> 00:50:12,525 So, the end of the needle that was exposed to the violet light 599 00:50:12,625 --> 00:50:14,401 has produced a magnetic north pole. 600 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:16,900 - Like a compass? - Exactly so. 601 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,858 Whereas, Mr Turner, had I done the same experiment 602 00:50:19,958 --> 00:50:21,650 using the red end of the spectrum, 603 00:50:21,750 --> 00:50:24,109 this needle would not have been magnetised. 604 00:50:24,209 --> 00:50:28,567 I have, from time to time, attempted it with the green and the blue, 605 00:50:28,667 --> 00:50:31,733 and it has succeeded on occasion but not consistently. 606 00:50:31,833 --> 00:50:34,141 Colour is contradictory. 607 00:50:34,875 --> 00:50:38,109 Well, is it, Mr Turner? 608 00:50:38,209 --> 00:50:39,608 Colour is absolute. 609 00:50:39,708 --> 00:50:43,224 Sublime but contradictory yet harmonious. 610 00:50:43,833 --> 00:50:46,276 You are a man of great vision, Mr Turner. 611 00:50:47,583 --> 00:50:51,141 The universe is chaotic and you make us see it. 612 00:50:52,292 --> 00:50:54,025 In natural philosophy 613 00:50:54,125 --> 00:50:57,525 nothing can ever be proved, only disproved. 614 00:50:57,625 --> 00:51:00,817 The purity of your prism, the contamination of my palette. 615 00:51:00,917 --> 00:51:04,150 Natural light, blackness. 616 00:51:04,250 --> 00:51:07,349 White is the power of good, black is the devil. 617 00:51:16,334 --> 00:51:22,109 Transparent bodies depend so much upon what is opposed to them, 618 00:51:22,209 --> 00:51:23,984 having no colour, 619 00:51:24,084 --> 00:51:26,433 that they take every one offered. 620 00:51:32,459 --> 00:51:35,401 Water of